Hat-drier.



No, 781,592. PATENTED JAN. 31, 1905. A. CATINO.

HAT DRIER.

APILIOATION FILED AUG. 20.1904.

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Patented January 31, 1905.

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ANTON 1O CATINO. OF BOSTON, HASSAUIIUSETTS.

HAT-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,592, dated January 31, 1905.

Application filed August 20, 1904. Serial No. 221,530.

Be it known that I, AN'roXioUA'iiNo, a subject of the King of Italy, and a resident of the city of Boston. in the county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Driers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is the construction of an improved device by means of which a hat or similar article can be quickly and uniformlydried: and my invention consists in the construction of a hat-frame revolubly supported and arranged to automatically rotate by the action of a current of air given by any suitable means, as a fan-motor, and so present every part of the hat to such current for the purpose of its being dried thoroughly and evenly by such current of air.

Referring to the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a side elevation of the hat-frame made in accordance with my invention. showing a hat in section held thereby. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing two such hat-frames, one with a hat thereon, and a fanmotor directing an air-blast toward both hatframes.

The hatframe consists of a top plate 1, preferably elliptical in shape, as shown in Fig. 2, frame-bars 2, fixed at their ends to said plate, a socket5. located at the center of said plate, and a rod i, penetrating a suitable opening through the intersection of said frame-bars and turning freely in said socket. Soldered or otherwise rigidly secured to the frame-bars 2 are four fans 3, located in substantially vertical radial planes cutting said rod 4:. By locatiug the staiulard-rod i in a fixed position at one side of the air-blast coming from the fanmotor M the uueiwally-balanced impact of such blast imparts to the hat-frame a rapid and uniform rotation. Depending from the top plate i and rigid therewith are several spring-lingers ti, so curved and arranged as to normally reach beyond the periphery of said plate to a distance sutlicicnt to permit them to contact with the interior of the largest hat ordinarily worn. At the same time said springtingers should be capable of yielding enough to acconu'nodate the smallest hat commonly met with, and the top plate should be of the same limited dimensions.

A hat II being pressed down about the spring-lingers 6 until either its top rests upon the top plate 1 or its brim is supported upon the upper edges of the fans 3, depending upon its height ofcrown, the equal centrifugal pressure of the said lingers centralizes the hat with respect to the rod 4, and so causes it to rotate evenly.

.In the practical employment of my invention I prefer to use two of the hat-driers with a single fan -motor, as shown in Fig. 2. in order that the entire air-current may be utilized.

\Vhat .1 claim as my invention,and for which I desire Letters Pater-s, is as follows, to wit:

1. Ahat-driercomprisingarevoluble frame constructed to hold and revolve a hat therewith, fan-blades rigid with said frame, and means for directing an air-blast against said blades and frame to simultaneously revolve the same and dry the hatcarried thereby.

A hat-drier comprising a pair of revoluble frames each constructed to hold and revolve a hat therewith and each having radially-disposed fan-blades rigid therewith, said frames being located side by side with their axes vertical, and means for directing an airblast against the blades on adjacent sides of said frame to revolve the same in oppositedirections and strike the hats carried by said frames.

3. In a drier, a revoluble frame having spring-lingers exerting a yielding pressure. centrifugally from the axis of rotation, and fan-blades projecting from said frame.

i. I.)rying apparatus comprising a lixed ver tical rod, a frame having a socket rigid therewith and turning on said rod, said frame being proportioned to enter an ordinary-sized hat, means carried by said frame elastically pressing outward against the interior of such hat, and radially-dis )osed fan-blades projecting rigidly from said frame beneath a hat carried by the latter and supporting such hat.

in testimony that lclaim the fm'egoing invention l have hereunto set my hand this 12th day of August, 190%.

ANTONIO CATI NO.

\Vitnesses:

.Iosncu FRUNHILLL), Rouuu'r E. Burt-UM. 

